Assessing the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission via Surgical Electrocautery Plume Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • This quality improvement study used a nonhuman subject research approach to examine whether SARS-CoV-2 from aerosolized virus is present in and potentially transmissible from a electrocautery plume in surgery.

authors

  • Sowerby, Leigh J
  • Nichols, Anthony C
  • Gibson, Richard
  • Sommer, Doron
  • Moore, Corey
  • Fraser, Douglas D
  • Arts, Eric

publication date

  • September 1, 2021